Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones is speaking out on a series of high-profile incidents that have recently taken place ...

Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones has 10 deputies who are now certified ICE agents, and he plans to put more through the training.

The sheriff’s office, located in Hamilton, Ohio, renewed its contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in ...

Local advocates worry about a controversial bill gaining traction at the Ohio Statehouse that could lead to fewer restrictions for how federal immigration laws are enforced.

Vasquez and other advocates gathered outside the Homeland Security office in Blue Ash to call for Mendez’s release from the ...

Federal immigration detainee Emerson Colindres, who is facing deportation to Honduras, is no longer in custody at the Butler County Jail. Colindres was moved out around 1:30 or 2:30 a.m., according to ...

With Trump back in office, the Butler County jail is holding ICE detainees again. “President Trump, his first time when he was president, he was in the deportation business,” Jones said.

In Butler County, some deputies will be able to participate in ICE-led task forces and identify “removable aliens” in the county jail on criminal charges. Supporters of the program, which has expanded ...

Since then, it hasn’t taken long for Butler County’s jail cells to fill up. “Ten weeks ago, I had zero ICE prisoners. Today, I have 250,” Jones said in mid-April.

The Butler County Jail in Hamilton can hold thousands of inmates. Now, ICE detainees will be among them. But there has been difficulty determining who those people are. The Trump administration has ...